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Palo Alto High School's NewspaperSat, 21 Apr 2018 00:26:05 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8Comment on Paulson submits application for principal by Kathy Jordanhttps://thecampanile.org/2018/04/20/paulson-submits-application-for-principal/#comment-18479
Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:26:05 +0000https://thecampanile.org/?p=16726#comment-18479According to the Nov. 2015 family, Mr. Paulson has been implicated for mishandling the response to the Nov. 2015 sexual assault incident. Administrators who caused harm to students, and did not provide them access to their education, which is what the Nov. 2015 family asserts Mr. Paulson did, should not be in positions of authority over children, let alone be promoted.

Not providing students equal access to their education is deemed discrimination, by Title IX and state law. These are not small issues and policies were already in place; Mr. Paulson just didn’t follow them, nor did Ms. Kim, according to the Nov. 2015 family.

PAUSD – why are you waiting to release the Cozen report on the Nov. 2015 incident that you have already received in March, and that we taxpayers will have to pay for? If these administrators are cleared of all wrongdoing, why not release it? And why not release it prior to considering Mr. Paulson’s application for Paly principal?

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Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:49:35 +0000https://thecampanile.org/?p=16331#comment-18406First, it only applies to public schools.
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Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:30:34 +0000http://www.palycampanile.org/?p=5237#comment-18355nice!!
]]>Comment on Paly ought to re-evaluate its definition of honors courses by Zeev Wurmanhttps://thecampanile.org/2018/03/14/paly-ought-to-re-evaluate-its-definition-of-honors-courses/#comment-18261
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:40:54 +0000https://thecampanile.org/?p=16305#comment-18261I generally liked this piece, even as I disagree with some of its arguments. Yet I felt I couldn’t let the following pass without comment:

“Second, any decision must be democratic. Students and teachers ,those who are actually living our culture and affected most, need to have the first say.”

These two sentences contain two messages: that educational decisions *for individuals* must be based on the will of the majority (“democratic”); and that students “who are … affected most, need to have the first say.”

The second message is inherently in conflict with the plea for “democracy” as it demands special privilege for students’ majority opinion. Yet students are minors in charge of their parents and school administrators, and they don’t pay for their own education. So why should one accept that they should have “the first say”? Outside school one calls such behavior “rent-seeking” or “seeking unearned privileged position.”

But the first message is much more pernicious. It argues that when it comes to individual educational interests, the collective has the ability to dictate to the individual what the collective believes is right for him. For example, the collective can say that Johnny will not take more than two AP courses at a time or no more than six AP courses in total; the collective can tell Jane that her pursuit of academic excellence is driven by egotistical interests of success in college and hence is morally reprehensible; that the collective is justified in limiting individual opportunities in its pursuit of “noble” social equity.

Unfortunately, this reminds me more of Mao’s cultural revolution than of our Declaration of Independence.

]]>Comment on Students walk out of school to protest gun violence by Anonymoushttps://thecampanile.org/2018/03/14/students-walk-out-of-class-to-protest-gun-violence/#comment-18228
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 04:12:43 +0000https://thecampanile.org/?p=16281#comment-18228Thank you to the students for doing this
]]>Comment on Boys volleyball team established at Paly by Edward yehhttps://thecampanile.org/2018/03/10/boys-volleyball-team-established-at-paly/#comment-18188
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 21:44:51 +0000https://thecampanile.org/?p=16271#comment-18188Thanks for the great story. We’re doing better on logistics now — the school has provided vans for our away game. We just won our second league match on Friday, and we’re 2-0 in our division. Go Vikes!
]]>Comment on Thrift shops become favorable fashion after years of disinterest by Deb Pearlhttps://thecampanile.org/2017/05/19/thrift-shops-becoming-favorable-fashion-after-years-of-disinterest/#comment-18177
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:17:52 +0000https://thecampanile.org/?p=13885#comment-18177That is good to know that today a lot of people are going to thrift stores, and not just the penny-pinchers. I think it is great that you can find all sorts of unique things at a thrift store. I can see why everyone would have fun going to a thrift store. I should try to go more often and see if I can find anything really unique.
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Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:36:16 +0000https://thecampanile.org/?p=16025#comment-18172This website was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I’ve found something which helped me.
Thank you!
]]>Comment on Paly principal releases formal disciplinary letter from District by Keith Ferrellhttps://thecampanile.org/2018/03/07/district-reprimands-paly-principal-for-mishandled-title-ix-investigation/#comment-18167
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 07:05:58 +0000https://thecampanile.org/?p=16237#comment-18167Will Diorio not take any personal responsibility for any of this? Read the report. Paly administrators had the ability to offer the family a UCP even if Holly Wade told them they did not need to. It’s common sense. If Diorio is as concerned about student safety as she wants everyone to believe, she would have done this on her own. Diorio needs to stop acting as if she had no control over the situation. She is the principal. It is HER duty to care for the students.
]]>Comment on Hypebeast: The latest fashion frenzy for expensive streetwear by Jameshttps://thecampanile.org/2018/02/16/hypebeast-the-latest-fashion-frenzy-for-expensive-streetwear/#comment-18163
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:23:37 +0000https://thecampanile.org/?p=15712#comment-18163Totally agree. Fortunately, some brands still do the job and don’t forget the streetwear culture.
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